For theoretical plucks, exponentially-decaying short-noise-bursts produce the psychoacoustically richest sounding digital waveguides
for plucked stringed instruments. However, as discussed later in Section 4.1,
the pluck itself is psychoacoustically significant. As any plucked-stringed instrument
musician would attest to, reproducing the exact same pluck by hand is extremely difficult
if not impossible. Studies have been made to study guitar plucks [21]. In such research, elaborate
devices have been constructed to reproduce the exact same pluck.
As shown later in Section 4.1,
plucks are more than short bursts of white-noise. Each pluck
has unique characteristics to its particular occurrence.